Bunty Quotes

#1. Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets. Bunty

Holly Smale

#2. Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

Kate Atkinson

#3. Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia.
'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.'
'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.

Kate Atkinson

#4. Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents.

Stephen Richards

#5. Also," Bunty adds cheerfully, "how many cats did you have when you left?"
"One," Annabel says, putting her hand over her face.
"You have three now." Bunty swings hrt bag over her shoulder. "See you at Christmas, lovelies!"
And my grandmother disappears as abruptly as she arrived.

Holly Smale

#6. My problem was me, and I didn't want to concern him with something he couldn't change. Only I could make myself a stronger person, and I needed to, if I wanted to make him happy and offer him the security he so desperately wanted from me.

Sylvia Day

#7. Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

Fran Lebowitz

#8. A subtle urge to synchronize is pervasive in nature. Indeed, it drives the firing of thousands of pacemaker cells in the heart and brings into synchrony the menstrual cycles of women who live together for long periods of time.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#9. Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Ruby Wax

#10. Don't Freeze! Surrender to the Breeze like the Trees!-RVM

R.v.m.

#11. Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Teju Cole

#12. I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

Ben Mendelsohn

#13. A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Alan Turing

#14. When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Some days are so difficult that if we didn't let wine steal our wits, how would we sleep?

Dean Koontz

#16. We miss the paradox that a pure world can't come from a sick and unloved people.

Jason Garner